Posts by Carol Stewart
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The moon landing, as a small child who'd just started school. Teacher had the radio (or was it the TV?) on in the classroom.
And then - Mt Erebus, where the news filtered in to Whitianga Marae where I was on a school camp. -
Hard News: What we learned yesterday…, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, it's a fair point that not all referenda are the same. Handy summary here in Te Ara.
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Totally with you, Craig. Referenda are a crap way of making decisions, not least because it's well near impossible to capture the complexities of any given issue in a simple referendum question.
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Hard News: The climate changed, in reply to Jason Kemp,
Some good news tucked away about ozone levels dropping :)
That was due to swift and concerted global action in the form of the Montreal protocol. It was also a much simpler problem (than AGW) to solve in that it was largely a matter of product substitution.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to linger,
I agree. I'm not quite sure why Labour don't consider doing an Epsom type deal with the Greens in one of their electorate seats. It would benefit the Greens, and Labour, much more than the Epsom deal benefits the National Party.
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It's been pleasing to see the appearance of tools designed to inform voters about policy differences - such as the Spinoff one. Also some good work on Sciblogs, such as this round-up by Brendan Moyle on the different parties' approaches to meeting Paris targets for greenhouse gas emissions. They did a good one on water quality as well.
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Cheers for all that, Emma. My lad is eligible to vote now and it's heart warming how excited he is about it.
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You think you can exclude Winston from the right bloc, Sacha?
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Hard News: That escalated quickly ..., in reply to Lynn Yum,
I have to say I am warming to Andrew Little.
Bit late for that, Lynn! Are you saying that he should have stayed on? I completely disagree. If anyone's panicking it's the National Party. Jacinda as leader is a nightmare for them, which is going to lead to a much more closely contested election.
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Great story Ben. My son did the same thing with Kate Wilkinson who was minister of conservation at the time.